Silence; Lectures and Writings Summary

This collection of essays and presentations by noted composer and musical innovator John Cage attempts to capture on paper both the intellectual and stylistic creativity with which he approached his work. In both the themes of the collection and the internal arrangement of the individual pieces, the author explores the nature of music, music's relationship to sound, and the value of incorporating randomness into what had previously been an ordered, carefully considered art...

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John Cage Biographies (2)

American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912-1992) experimented with the nature of sound and devised new systems of musical notation. His innovative ideas on composition and performance influenced mu...
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John Cage is perhaps unique in the range and depth of his influence on post-1945 artistic practice. John Rockwell wrote in The New York Times, "As the unchallenged father figure of American experiment...
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